Hailey Gonzalez, the 20-month-old toddler who died Monday of appalling injuries inflicted when she was beaten in her New Brighton home, was remembered today during a funeral mass and brief graveside service.

None of the scores of mourners inside Our Lady of Good Counsel R.C. Church in Tompkinsville could have failed to notice the tininess of the coffin -- a symbol of the brevity of Hailey's life as well as her vulnerability.

The eulogy was also short:

"If you had known Hailey only briefly, she would have brought happiness to you, as she did us," said Hailey's grandmother, Sonia Cintron, to a crowd of about 60 inside the church. "We will miss her smiles, her bright smiles, and most of all we'll miss her growing up. I know we'll see her again. I hope she'll recognize us."

Hailey's parents were absent from the funeral because both are in jail. While her mother and her mother's boyfriend stand accused in the baby's fatal abuse, Hailey's father has been serving a sentence for beating her previously.